Editorial: There's a word for this young speller

Barbara Corbellini Duarte /Scripps Howard Foundation Wire
Victoria Epstein correctly spelled “ephemeral,” which means lasting for a short time, on stage Wednesday and moved to Round 3 later in the day. Epstein, of Flour Bluff Junior High School, is competing in the her second consecutive Scripps National Spelling Bee.

CORPUS CHRISTI - For Victoria Epstein, the Coastal Bend’s representative at the Scripps National Spelling Bee, those tense moments of competition are not the attraction. That’s probably for the best, since they are ephemeral, which as surely everyone knows means fleeting. “Ephemeral” also is one of the words Victoria spelled correctly.